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'The author is Lardil man from Mornington Island; comments on conception beliefs, birth, food plants, camp life, Creation myth, myths on origin of death, Thuwathu the Rainbow Serpent, marriage rules, relations with Mission staff, hunting & fishing, stellar myths, dugong hunting, wild bee myth; initiation myth, describes initiation ceremony, subincision, secret Damin language; flood ceremony, 22 lines of rain stopping song (with free translation), story of Warrenby, sorcery and sorcerers, clay as medicine, love magic, moon legend, death & mourning, burial, inquest, spirit beliefs; relations with Bentinck Island (Kaiadilt) people, stories of early settlement of Sweers Island; work on cattle stations & as deckhand, encouragement to work on bark painting' (Source: Online)
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Stories of the Land Celebrate Our First Hero
2018
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 28 November no. 690 2018; (p. 36)'The art of Lardil artist Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey (1920-1985) had its origins in bark painting - but the late artist is known as one of the pioneers of the modern style of Indigenous painting using oils and acrylics during the 1970s.'
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Stories of the Land Celebrate Our First Hero
2018
single work
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 28 November no. 690 2018; (p. 36)'The art of Lardil artist Goobalathaldin Dick Roughsey (1920-1985) had its origins in bark painting - but the late artist is known as one of the pioneers of the modern style of Indigenous painting using oils and acrylics during the 1970s.'
- Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria area, Far North Queensland, Queensland,
